Little Bromley

Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008

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Results: 13 records

B01: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel - with scroll

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923

Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)

Copyright Instructions: PD

B02: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle

Scene Description: not a very convincing eagle; it does not hold a scroll

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B03: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion - with scroll?

B04: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - winged bull - with scroll?

B05: design element - motifs - floral - rose - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923

Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)

Copyright Instructions: PD

BBU01: design element - motifs - scotia

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

BU01: angel - demi-figure - holding shield

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923

Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)

Copyright Instructions: PD

BU02: angel - demi-figure - holding heart

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

LB01: design element - architectural - buttress - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923

Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

Scene Description: not clear which Evangelist's symbol occupies the right panel in this image

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the font at the west end of the nave, beneath the gallery

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 05194BRO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located 10 kms ENE of Colchester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th century(early?), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Evangelists' font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and font
Baptismal font noted with an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "octagonal bowl with panelled sides carved alternately with roses and the symbols of the evangelists, under-edge with four half-angels holding hearts or shields, buttressed stem, early 16th-century." In Pevsner (1976): "Font. Octagonal, stem with buttresses, bowl with the four Symbols of the Evangelists and four rosettes. The figure carving is very primitive." Bettley & Pevsner (2007) add the date "Early C16". The Evangelists' symbols are somewhat 'sui generis', and not in the style expected in a late-Perpendicular English font

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern

REFERENCES

Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976